INTENSIFICATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

Аннотация

Following P.A. Lekant, intensification in language and speech can be understood as a number of functional-semantic operations, including emphasis (accentuation), strengthening, completeness, gradation (usually its high degree), generalization and evaluation [Lekant 2011: 58]. Intensification is associated with the expression of emotions of a native speaker, for whom it is important to strengthen the semantics of his words in a given situation. This is why U. Labov believes that the means of linguistic intensification underlie social and emotional expression in the speaker's speech [Labov 1984: 43].